A general history of the pyrates, from their first rise and settlement in the Island of Providence, to the present time. With the remarkable actions and adventures of the two female pyrates Mary Read and Anne Bonny ...

Title Variants

Alternative: General history of the pirates

By

Defoe, Daniel, 1661?-1731

Defoe, Daniel, 1661?-1731

Type

Book

Material

Published material

Publication info

London, Printed for, and sold by T. Warner, at the Black-boy in Pater-Noster-Row, 1724

Edition

2d ed., with considerable additions. By Captain Charles Johnson.

Notes

Attribution to Defoe is based on internal textual relationship to his works of proven authorship together with supporting external evidence. Cf. J. H. Moore. Defoe in the pillory. Bloomington, Ind., 1939, p. 126-188. However, see also P.N. Furbank and W.R. Owens, The canonisation of Daniel Defoe, for a refutation of Defoe's authorship of this work.

First ed. was printed for C. Rivington in 1724 under title: A general history of the robberies and murders of the most notorious pyrates ... By Captain Charles Johnson.

Subjects

Pirates

Call Number

F2161 .D4 1724

Language

English

Identifiers

DOI: https://doi.org/10.5962/bhl.title.85333
LCCN: https://lccn.loc.gov/02015922
OCLC: 2276353